United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a certain portion of royalty owner oil production from the windfall profit tax. Limits the amount so exempted per quarter to ten barrels per day. Requires proportionate allocation of any production in excess of ten barrels per day between tier 1 oil, tier 2, and tier 3 oil, and within any tier on the basis of removal prices. Requires allocation of the ten barrel amount among royalty owners who are members of the same related group.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1980
Designates October 19, 1981, as a Day of National Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the victory of General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1980
Unlocking America's Energy Resources Act - Directs the President to order the removal of administrative restrictions not required by Federal law or court order which impede the leasing of energy resources on Federal lands or on the Outer Continental Shelf. Requires the President to institute policies which give priority to the expeditious leasing, development, and production of oil, natural gas, coal, oil shale, tar sands, and geothermal resources on Federal lands. Requires the President to submit to an advisory panel a list of restrictions required by Federal law or court order which impede the leasing of energy resources on Federal lands or on the Outer Continental Shelf. Directs the panel to review such restrictions and report to Congress and the President on: (1) the reasonableness of such restrictions; and (2) appropriate legislative or administrative actions to reduce impediments to the leasing of energy resources on Federal lands or the Outer Continental Shelf. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to order substantial lease sales, for private development only, within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Bars civil actions challenging any such lease sale which are brought more than 30 days after such lease sale is announced. Exempts any such lease sale from the environmental impact statement requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. Requires the President to direct that leasing priority be given to areas of the Outer Continental Shelf that have the highest hydrocarbon potential and known hydrocarbon reserves. Sets forth the conditions for the issuance of Outer Continental Shelf leases by the Secretary of the Interior. Sets forth the requirements for the appointment by the President of members of the advisory panel.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1980
Communications Act Amendments of 1980 - Title I: General - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to declare that such Act applies to, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has jurisdiction over: (1) all interexchange and international telecommunications and all transmission of electromagnetic energy by radio, which originates or is received within the United States; (2) the licensing and regulating of all radio stations; and (3) all persons engaged within the United States in such telecommunications or such radio transmissions. Directs the FCC to develop and report to Congress on methods for determining the value of and collecting fees for the commercial benefit received by various classes of licenses. Title II: Domestic and International Telecommunications; Rural Telecommunications Development - Directs the FCC to establish a transition plan to foster marketplace competition and to implement deregulation for interexchange and international telecommunications services, equipment, and carriers. Requires such plan to: (1) classify common carriers; (2) establish and implement an accounting system; (3) provide a procedure for the formation of fully separated affiliates and to monitor compliance; and (4) provide for practices and procedures for exchange access charges and a Universal Service Pool in substitution for existing arrangements. Declares the policy of the United States to be reliance when possible upon full and fair marketplace competition to provide all telecommunications services. Directs the FCC to revise, reduce, or eliminate rules with respect to telecommunication services or carriers operating in a market as competition develops. Grants the FCC continuing authority over the provision of regulated telecommunications services and carriers. Directs the FCC to ensure that all allocation, assignment, and authorization policies, standards, and rules with respect to the licenses issued to telecommunication carriers are not inconsistent with such policy. Permits the FCC to establish nonadjudicatory (excluding economic) methods for choosing among competing applicants for radio frequencies to be used by telecommunications carriers. Requires the FCC to identify those carriers deriving revenue from the procedures established by the telephone industry to allocate the costs and divide the revenues associated with the provision of basic telephone service. Classifies such carriers as regulated carriers. Requires the FCC to identify those regulated carriers which, together with affiliates, each serve 750,000 or more telephones to be classified as dominant-regulated carriers. Requires the FCC to identify any telecommunications carrier which owns, controls, or leases any international telecommunications facility. Classifies such carrier as a regulated international telecommunications carrier. Classifies further as dominant-regulated carriers any carrier providing basic telephone service internationally and the Communications Satellite Corporation. Directs the FCC to classify or reclassify as a regulated carrier any carrier which owns or controls telecommunications facilities for which there is no reasonably available alternative or which provides any other regulated service. Directs the FCC to classify or reclassify as a dominant-regulated carrier any regulated carrier which is dominant in such ownership, control, or provision. Permits the FCC to reclassify any dominant-regulated carrier as a regulated carrier and any regulated carrier as an unregulated carrier. Prohibits the FCC from regulating the resale of any telecommunications service except those offered by a quasi-governmental entity which has a statutory monopoly for the delivery of letters. Prohibits any regulated carrier from establishing or enforcing any restrictions on the resale, sharing, or other use of any service provided by such carrier. Prohibits any dominant-regulated carrier from engaging in any resale activity other than through a fully separated affiliate. Authorizes the FCC to prescribe different requirements for different regulated carriers, considering the extent of telecommunications facility ownership or control and the nature of services offered. Makes a regulated carrier liable for damages to any persons injured for violations of such Act. Requires every regulated international carrier, regulated interexchange carrier, and every carrier which owns or controls an exchange telecommunications facility for which there is no reasonably available alternative facility to interconnect with the telecommunications equipment of any other carrier or person upon reasonable request. Subjects all internal arrangements for interconnection to specified tariffs. Requires every regulated carrier to make available any regulated telecommunications service for reasonable and nondiscriminatory tariffs. Requires every telecommunications carrier to provide the FCC and the public with such information relating to telecommunications operations as is necessary for the FCC to carry out its duties under this Act. Authorizes the FCC to impose different filing, notification, and information requirements on different carriers. Requires regulated carriers to make public tariffs showing charges, practices, and regulations for regulated telecommunications services and through routes. Prohibits any regulated carrier from providing regulated telecommunications services unless such tariffs are filed. Prohibits deviation from such tariffs. Requires that new or revised tariffs proposed by regulated carriers for regulated telecommunications services be conditionally accepted or finally approved by the FCC before taking effect. Authorizes the FCC to facilitate public negotiation between such carriers and interested parties opposing such tariffs. Directs the FCC to hold hearings for good cause shown, upon request, with the burden of proof on the carrier to show that such tariff is just and reasonable. Authorizes the FCC to accept, condition, or reject such tariff or prescribe a different tariff. Requires any non-dominant-regulated international carrier with respect to interconnection arrangements, and permits any regulated carrier, to file any new or revised tariff. Permits any party in interest to request a hearing concerning the lawfulness of such tariff. Authorizes the FCC to accept, condition, or reject such tariff. Requires every regulated carrier subject to this Act to file with the FCC copies of all contracts or agreements with other carriers in relation to any regulated telecommunications service. Authorizes the FCC to appraise any or all of the property owned or used by any regulated carrier, and by any regulated exchange carrier which originates, terminates, or transfers interexchange or international telecommunications. Repeals the provision relating to the Interstate Commerce Commission valuation of such property. Permits any non-dominant-regulated carrier, upon notifying the FCC, to construct, acquire, or utilize new or extended exchange telecommunications facilities. Authorizes the FCC to require such carrier to obtain a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require such construction, acquisition, or operation. Requires dominant-regulated carriers to obtain such a certificate. Permits the FCC to authorize a long-term facilities construction plan for a regulated carrier, rather than requiring such carrier to obtain a separate certification for each element of such plan. Authorizes the FCC to condition or refuse such authorization or certification as the public convenience and necessity may require. Authorizes the FCC to require, after opportunity for a hearing, a regulated carrier to extend its facilities for the expeditious and efficient performance of its services. Permits telecommunications carriers to meet, plan, and agree, under the auspices of the FCC, on matters affecting the design, maintenance, management, development, and coordination of telecommunications networks necessary to the joint provision of end-to-end through services. Authorizes the FCC to authorize temporary or emergency augmentation of facilities or services or discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of services or facilities. Requires any dominant-regulated carrier and its affiliates to: (1) file with the FCC a description of the operational protocols and technical interface requirements for connection with or use of any regulated telecommunications services; and (2) report regularly to the FCC any material change in such protocols or requirements and summaries of construction programs or activities which would affect the service offerings of competing carriers or persons seeking interconnection. Requires such information to be withheld from a fully separated affiliate or an internal competitive support division until filed. Directs the FCC to prescribe guidelines of general applicability relating to recordkeeping requirements for regulated carriers. Authorizes (presently directs) the FCC to prescribe for such carriers the classes of property for which depreciation charges may be included in operating expenses. Repeals the forfeiture provision for failure to keep required records. Requires any carrier which provides basic telephone or telecommunications service to allocate to each route all of the costs which vary directly with traffic on that route and a proportionate share of interexchange joint and common costs. Repeals provisions of the 1934 Act concerning consolidations and mergers of telegraph carriers, effective January 1, 1981. Directs the FCC to establish a Joint Board to assist in: (1) establishing uniform practices to ascertain and apportion the costs of exchange operations between exchange and interexchange services and among interexchange services; and (2) managing the Universal Service Pool. Requires the FCC to establish the forms for records to be kept by carriers providing such exchange access. Requires each such carrier to file with the FCC a tariff governing the charges, practices, and conditions for the use of its exchange telecommunications services. Sets forth the requirements for access charges, including nondiscrimination and directly related cost-basing. Directs the FCC to establish a schedule of surcharges to ensure the continued universal availability of basic telephone service at reasonable rates. Limits the annual amount to be collected through surcharges and places such surcharges in a Universal Service Pool. Requires the Joint Board to authorize the transfer of such funds between and among carriers to ensure that exchange basic telephone rates, access costs, and the cost of rural connecting toll links are not unreasonably high. Sets forth the procedures for approving applications for payments. Directs the FCC to review and approve any plan for cooperative arrangements among carriers. Requires a utility to provide reasonable, nondiscriminatory access for pole attachments by any cable television system or by any telecommunications carrier. Directs each State commission to configure exchange telecommunications areas within the borders of each such State. Sets forth the criteria for reconfiguration, requiring every point within a State to be included within an exchange area. Authorizes the FCC to alter the boundaries of an exchange area if such configuration does not conform with the specified criteria. Directs the Joint Board to periodically examine such configurations. Sets forth the terms and conditions under which a fully separated affiliate must operate, including total separation of membership on the governing boards and separate recordkeeping requirements. Permits specified transactions at fair market value between such entities, including the sale of property, the lending of money, and the furnishing of goods and services. Prohibits such entities from jointly owning property or engaging in joint sales or marketing. Requires an FCC ruling to establish a fully separated affiliate. Establishes interim procedures for the conduct of research, development, and manufacturing activities of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) until AT&T establishes such fully separated affiliates. Requires business dealings among AT&T, any competitive support division, and any fully separated affiliate to be on an arms length basis and for fair market value. Permits a refusal to deal with any nonaffiliate if such refusal is based upon prudent business judgment. Requires each division of AT&T to bear its properly allocable share of costs for management and research. Requires AT&T to receive FCC approval before offering any telecommunications service or equipment on an unregulated basis. Prohibits the exchange of information from a dominant-regulated carrier to a competitive support-division which would give an unfair, competitive advantage. Requires all functions related to final assembly of any unregulated telecommunications equipment or equipment to be used in support of any unregulated service to be performed by a fully separated affiliate by a specified time. Sets forth a schedule for the transfer of specified functions and information to such affiliate. Requires the establishment of an assets evaluation board to determine the value of assets transferred from AT&T to any fully separated affiliate. Permits the FCC to waive such transition schedule if intervening events beyond the control of AT&T render it incapable of compliance. Prohibits AT&T from transferring in support of any unregulated services or equipment, any goods or services for which it is the only source of supply to a fully separated affiliate after the transition period. Exempts access to any telecommunications facility from such prohibition. States that the 1956 consent degree involving AT&T shall not bar AT&T and any affiliate from providing telecommunications service or equipment or information services so long as unregulated telecommunications service is conducted by fully separated affiliates. States that the provision of radioexchange telecommunications under any franchise awarded by a State and within a radio exchange area configured by a State commission shall be deemed an exchange service for the purposes of this Act. Directs the FCC to assure the feasibility of competition in the provision of all radioexchange telecommunications services through its allocations, assignments, and authorization standards and policies. Permits the FCC to impose requirements relating to the provision of radioexchange service by a regulated carrier to promote competition. Sets forth the benefits, rights, and entitlements of an employee transferred from a dominant-regulated carrier, a dominant- regulated international carrier, or an affiliate to a fully separated affiliate. Permits a fully separated affiliate and any labor entity representing the employees of such unit to enter into a collective bargaining agreement which will supercede any such agreement between such carriers and the transferred employee. Authorizes the FCC to coordinate the development and establishment of arrangements among regulated interexchange and international telecommunications carriers for mutual backup, restoration, and interconnection of each other's services necessary for the national defense, welfare, and security. Authorizes the President to require any carrier subject to this Act to furnish, for compensation, telecommunications services or facilities to any Federal agency if such service is necessary to promote the national defense and security. Directs the President to coordinate any government program for enhancing the survivability of exchange, interexchange, and international telecommunications facilities and protecting against the unauthorized interception of telecommunications traffic. Prohibits the FCC or any State from regulating the production, marketing, or other provision of customer-premises equipment or information services. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations for separate pricing on a fair market value basis of such equipment or services or cable television service when offered in conjunction with a regulated service by a regulated carrier. Permits the FCC to establish and enforce requirements relating to interconnection of such equipment and associated switching equipment to the facilities of any regulated carrier, any cable television system operator, and specified exchange carriers. Permits the FCC to establish and enforce minimum uniform technical standards for customer-premises telecommunications equipment. Authorizes the FCC to establish labeling requirements for such equipment. Exempts the use of any information processing capability in support of a telecommunications service or system from the provisions of this Act concerning the provision of an information service. Prohibits any dominant-regulated carrier from providing any unregulated telecommunications service or equipment, except through a fully separated affiliate after a specified time. Authorizes the FCC, until a specified time, to require any unregulated carrier to continue to interconnect its telecommunications facilities with any person for a reasonable period of time if withdrawal of such interconnection would result in an unreasonable hardship. Requires each regulated carrier to continue to provide under tariff any telecommmunications service which such carrier is providing upon the enactment of this Act for a specified time. Directs the FCC to determine which of such services will continue to be regulated or shall be unregulated through a fully separated affiliate or subject to specified safeguards. Authorizes the FCC to determine what basic telecommunications service should be universally available at reasonable rates, prices, terms, or conditions. Permits any person to petition the FCC to classify any interexchange telecommunications service as basic. Directs the FCC to hold a hearing upon granting such petition to determine the terms and conditions of such service. Presumes that unregulated marketplace competition will universally provide such service, unless it is clearly and convincingly demonstrated that regulation is necessary. Permits the FCC to review any such determination and terminate regulation of service when regulation is no longer necessary. Authorizes the FCC to restrict the number of cable television systems which may be owned or controlled in common by any person or in combination with other media interests, or by a regulated telecommunications carrier offering cable television services in the same operating area. Prohibits any Federal agency or State from imposing any programming control or rate restrictions upon any telecommunications carrier or operator of a cable television or other broad band system, unless there are no reasonably available alternative electronic-media services. Permits any telecommunications carrier to provide any international telecommunications service. Directs any regulated international telecommunications carrier to arrange for the collection and delivery of any traffic of any other U.S. carrier in any country in which such regulated carrier has an operating agreement. Directs the FCC to develop an International Telecommunications Facilities Plan to increase the availability of cost-effective international telecommunications services and promote the economic and national security of the United States. Directs the FCC to authorize carriers and persons seeking to participate in the operation and ownership of such facilities to negotiate a proposed facilities plan with appropriate foreign correspondents. Requires such plan to be submitted to the FCC for review upon completion of negotiations. Directs the FCC to adopt and publish a United States International Telecommunications Facilities Plan for a specified period of time upon approval of such plan. Authorizes the FCC to meet with representatives of foreign telecommunications entities likely to be affected by such plan during such plan's development. Requires adequate notice and transcripts of such meetings to be made public. States that the FCC shall retain jurisdiction over the use of authorized facilities among international carriers and may redistribute such facilities among such carriers. Directs the Secretary of State to select appropriate representatives to conferences involving international telecommunications matters. Exempts such representatives from the private sector from specified restrictions. Directs the President to assess the international information and telecommunications needs of the United States and to develop a policy to promote U.S. interests in international forums and with foreign governments. Establishes a Federal Rural Telecommunications Interagency Task Force to be the principal coordinating body for Federal policies and programs relating to the provision of telecommunications services to rural America. Sets forth the terms and conditions of membership on such Task Force. Directs the Task Force to: (1) review all Federal policies and programs having a significant effect on the delivery of such services and to recommend changes to the appropriate Federal agency or Congress; (2) recommend solutions to interagency policy and program conflicts; (3) solicit the views of State and local governments and the private sector concerning such policies and programs; and (4) identify and develop new programs to enhance cooperation among such entities. Requires each agency represented on the Task Force to submit to the President for transmittal to each new Congress biennial reports including a comprehensive review of the activities of such Task Force from its Chairman and a statement of recommendations from each such agency. Establishes the Rural Telecommunications Planning Program, to be administered by the Secretary of Commerce, to fund the necessary costs of rural telecommunications facilities and services planning projects. Sets forth the requirements for a planning project grant applicant, including that such applicant be a State or State agency that will use such grant to develop a plan for the provision of telecommunications facilities and services to all rural areas of such State. Requires each planning project to: (1) identify rural areas within each State; (2) inventory existing telecommunications facilities and services serving such areas; (3) configure telecommunications service areas to reflect existing communities of interest; (4) identify the services to be facilitated through the use of telecommunications or other services; and (5) provide for a continuing State role. Directs the Secretary to make planning grants not to exceed 75 percent of the necessary costs of such project. Limits the number and total amount of grants any one applicant may receive. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for fiscal years 1982 through 1985. Directs the Secretary to conduct a continuing review of the planning project for each grant recipient. Authorizes the Secretary to terminate such assistance if the recipient fails to adhere, without justification, to the project as approved. Sets forth recordkeeping and auditing requirements. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish criteria for telecommunications loan eligibility. Sets forth factors to be considered in such criteria, including the provision of the most cost-effective communications technology to the widest practicable number of potential users. Directs the FCC to compile and publish a list of regulations and policies directly and significantly affecting the provision of telecommunications services to rural populations. Permits telecommunications carriers serving large rural areas with low population densities to provide cable television services, subject to appropriate conditions. Directs the FCC to coordinate its activities with the Task Force to facilitate the issuance of licenses and the revision of rules. Title III: Provisions Relating to Radio - Exempts from the licensing requirement certain classes of radio stations where no frequency assignments are made on an individual basis. Limits the licensing term to five years for the operation of a radio or television broadcasting station (presently broadcasting stations limited to three years). Permits the renewal of such license for up to five years. Limits the licensing and renewal term for the operation of any other class of station to ten years (presently five years). Authorizes the FCC to grant an application for a license by random selection whenever more than one qualified applicant wishes to operate on a newly available frequency. Directs the FCC to establish procedures for broadcast station license renewal hearings when competing applications have been filed. Excludes on-the-spot coverage of debates among candidates for the office of President and Vice-President which are not arranged by a broadcast licensee from the requirements of the equal opportunity rule. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations to ensure that a legally qualified candidate for Federal elective office can gain reasonable access to time on a cable television system as specified. Permits the FCC to grant a permit for construction undertaken prior to such grant. Directs the FCC to review all policies, rules, and regulations for radio broadcast station licenses concerning programming requirements. Directs the FCC to revise or eliminate regulations relating to radio or television broadcasting whenever available sources of audio and video services make such regulation unnecessary to protect the public interest. Requires the FCC to report to Congress on any deregulation of radio broadcasting programming and the extent to which new and diverse sources of audio and video or other services are available to the public. Authorizes the FCC to delegate to qualified persons or organizations the authority to prepare and administer examinations for amateur radio operator licenses. Authorizes the FCC to delegate to non-Federal government coordinating committees the function of coordinating the assignment of frequencies above 30 megahertz to stations in the terrestrial private land mobile and fixed services. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Transfers to the Secretary of Commerce from the Secretary of Education the authority to make grants to public and private nonprofit agencies and organizations to carry out telecommunications demonstrations. Revises the purpose of such demonstration projects to promote the development of telecommunications facilities and services for the transmission, distribution, and delivery of telecommunications services, especially rural telecommunications. Title V: Conforming Amendments; Repealer; Reference - Makes conforming amendments to the Criminal Code, the Clayton Act, and the Communications Satellite Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to assist in negotiations with foreign entities for telecommunication trade rights, the marketing of telecommunications services and equipment, and information services and software. Disavows any intent to affect the applicability of the antitrust laws and any pending litigation. Directs the President to report to Congress on the development and implementation of a policy to promote United States interests in international forums and with foreign governments. Authorizes the FCC to establish minimum performance standards for television receivers to reduce their susceptibility to interference from radio frequency energy. Directs the FCC to establish reasonable ceilings for the fees to be paid to State or local government by operators of government-franchised cable television systems.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1980
Extends the congratulations of the Congress to the Order of the Sons of Italy in America for their 75th anniversary. Proclaims Sunday, June 22, 1980, as "National Italian-American Day."
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President instruct the Attorney General to prosecute all persons who violate the Logan Act and the executive order prohibiting travel to Iran, thereby giving color of right to illegal actions by the Government of Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President instruct the Attorney General to prosecute all persons who violate the Logan Act, thereby giving color of right to illegal actions by the Government of Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1980
National Export Policy Act of 1980 - Title I: General Findings and Purposes - Sets forth congressional findings and the purposes of this Act. Title II: Export Financing - Amends the Export - Import Bank Act of 1945 to direct the Export-Import Bank to adopt export finance programs comparable in structure to those extraordinary measures of official export credits offered by competing countries, until such financing is limited by international agreements. Requires the Bank to report annually to Congress as to whether any additional appropriations or any increases in its commitment authority or ceiling levels are necessary to carry out this Act. States that this Act shall not take effect until six months after enactment, unless the President defers the effective date for an additional six months. Declares it to be the policy of the Congress that the Export-Import Bank of the United States should facilitate, particularly in the presence of foreign officially-supported export credit competition, exports to countries: (1) having insufficient access to international credit facilities; (2) demonstrating reasonable economic progress; and (3) offering adequate formal assurances of repayment (currently, must offer sufficient likelihood of repayment). Increases the aggregate amount of loans and contractual liability of guarantees and insurance which may be outstanding at any one time. Requires such activities to be carried out through the Export Expansion Facility. Provides for the capitalization of such Facility. Establishes staggered, ten-year terms of office for the Bank directors. Declares that the House and Senate Appropriations Committees should consider limitations on Bank activities when considering appropriations for international trade activities rather than when considering foreign assistance activities. Title III: Export - Related Tax Policy - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the earned income exclusion for United States citizens working abroad, who are bona fide residents of a foreign country, from an annual rate of $20,000 to: (1) $50,000; or (2) $65,000, if such persons qualify as bona fide residents for certain specified periods. Allows separate exclusions to married individuals who are both working overseas, although one's excess exclusion cannot be used against income earned by the other. Waives the residency requirements to qualify for such exclusion for those required to leave a foreign country because of civil unrest, war, or similar adverse conditions precluding the normal conduct of business. Reduces from 17 to 11 months the foreign residency requirement with respect to the deduction for certain housing expenses of living abroad. Revises the formula for determining the base housing amount with regard to such deduction to make it 16 percent of the salary of a GS-14, step 1. Repeals similar deductions for cost-of-living differential, schooling expenses, home leave travel expenses, and residence in a hardship area. Provides that the foreign bad debt loss deduction shall not exceed the greater of 15 percent of the taxpayer's taxable income from exports, or two percent of the taxpayer's export receivables outstanding at the close of the taxable year. Provides that the amount of bad debt losses that may be added to a bad debt reserve shall not exceed five percent of the taxpayer's export receivables outstanding as of the close of the taxable year. Permits the amortization, based on a period of 60 months, of: (1) foreign market studies; (2) foreign marketing expenses; and (3) foreign patents. Permits an income tax deduction for currency fluctuation losses on export credit which have not been repaid by the end of the taxable year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to extend the six-month deadline for exempting exports from the manufacturer's excise tax for an additional 12 months if it is determined, after consultation with the Secretary of State, that exports were delayed because of war, civil unrest, or similar adverse conditions in a foreign nation. Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to approve the duty-free entry of machinery, materials, and fuels to be used for the production of goods in a foreign trade zone if such goods are not subsequently entered into U.S. customs territory. Sets forth requirements before applications for such treatment will be approved. Makes such approval valid for six years. Requires the Foreign Trade Zones Board to include in its annual report to Congress a summary of activities and proposals to increase the use of foreign trade zones to expand U.S. exports. Makes banking organizations which have invested in an export trading company eligible for treatment as domestic international sales corporations (DISC). Includes the gross receipts from the export of services produced in the United States and from export trade services as qualified export receipts, in the case of a DISC which is an export trading company. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, with the Secretary of the Treasury, to develop and distribute information concerning the utilization of the DISC provisions. Makes export trading companies eligible for Subchapter S treatment if the shareholders of such companies are otherwise small business corporations. Exempts such companies from restrictions on the amount of foreign income they can receive and still be eligible for Subchapter S tax treatment. Title IV: Antitrust - Amends the Webb-Pomerene Act to exempt the export trade, export trade activities, and methods of operation of certified export trade associations and export trading companies from the antitrust laws. Delays the effectiveness of any certificate upon the notification of the Secretary of Commerce by the Attorney General or the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of disagreement with the decision to issue a certificate. Sets forth the procedure to be followed by any association, company, or export trading company seeking certification under this Act and by the Secretary in issuing such certificates. Provides for appeal of the Secretary's denial of certification. Authorizes the Attorney General or the FTC to bring an action to invalidate a certification. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General and the FTC, to publish guidelines for determining whether an association or export trading company will meet the certification requirements. Requires certified associations and export trading companies to submit annual reports to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Commerce an office to promote export trade associations and trading companies. Provides for automatic certification of existing associations. Requires that all applications for certification be kept confidential with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary to require an association or trading company to modify its operation to be consistent with international obligations of the United States. Directs the President to appoint, with the Senate's advice and consent, a task force seven years after enactment to examine the effect of this Act and to make recommendations. Directs the Attorney General to study whether: (1) U.S. business conduct to expand exports conflicts with basic antitrust principles; and (2) a more liberal enforcement policy for overseas activities would impede implementation of the antitrust laws. Requires the Attorney General to identify such conduct which would not warrant prosecution under the antitrust laws. Sets forth the procedures for describing such permissible conduct and disclosing such descriptions. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to intervene in such suits and to provide legal assistance to exporters. Prohibits prosecution under the antitrust laws of exporters who: (1) have notified the Attorney General of their intention to engage in such designated conduct; or (2) receive an approval, or no objection, from the Attorney General concerning proposed transactions. Requires the Attorney General and the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress concerning implementation of this section. Title V: Amendments to Other Laws That Hinder Exports - Amends the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 to change the name of such Act to the Business Practices and Records Act. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require issuers of securities to keep their books and maintain a system of internal accounting controls in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Makes issuers liable for knowingly falsifying any books or for the intentionally wrongful maintenance or circumvention of the system of internal accounting controls. Requires only good faith efforts by issuers holding 50 percent or less of the equity capital to use their influence to cause transactions and dispositions of assets to be carried out consistent with such provisions. Repeals the provisions specifying prohibited foreign corrupt practices by issuers. Amends the Business Practices and Records Act to include issuers within the provisions specifying prohibited foreign corrupt practices by domestic concerns. Permits items of value to be given to foreigners in specified circumstances, including courtesy items, demonstration expenses, and payments lawful under the laws of the country of the intended recipient. Directs the Attorney General to issue guidelines specifying permissible conduct and arrangements associated with common types of export sales arrangements and business contracts and precautionary procedures creating a rebuttable presumption of compliance. Provides for the establishment of a Business Practices and Records Act Review Procedure to answer specific inquiries concerning enforcement of such Act. Requires the Attorney General to issue opinions regarding compliance. Makes such opinions final and binding on all parties if the conduct does not involve a violation. Requires annual reports to Congress by: (1) the Attorney General concerning actions taken pursuant to such Act; and (2) the Securities and Exchange Commission concerning the reporting requirements. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should negotiate agreements establishing standards of conduct for international business practices, a resolution procedure, and rates of commissions. Directs the President to report to Congress concerning the progress of such negotiations. Requires Congress to review the Business Practices and Records Act after receiving the President's report. Requires an export competitiveness impact statement from any issuing authority taking significant action which could affect adversely U.S. exports or the international competitive position of the United States and its exporters. Expresses the sense of Congress that export paperwork must be reduced to encourage export sales. Requires all agencies to minimize paperwork and reporting requirements. Title VI: Export Awareness and Export Promotion Programs - Export Trading Company Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to promote export trading companies and facilitate contracts between producers of exportable goods and export trading companies. Authorizes any banking organization to invest up to specified amounts in export trading companies upon notifying, but without obtaining the prior approval of, the appropriate Federal banking agency, if such investment does not cause an export trading company to become a subsidiary of such organization. Allows greater investment by Edge Act Corporations not engaged in banking. Permits any banking organization to invest beyond such limitations with the prior approval of the appropriate Federal banking agency. Requires prior notification of such agencies in specified circumstances. Sets forth further limitations on export trading companies and investments by banking organizations. Specifies factors to be taken into consideration by the banking agencies. Permits such agencies to impose conditions in approving applications to invest in export trading companies. Requires such agencies to report to the appropriate congressional committees concerning implementation of this Act and any recommendations. Provides for judicial review of denial orders in the appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals. Sets forth the grounds for disapproval. Provides for remand for further consideration by the banking agency. Directs the Economic Development Administration and the Small Business Administration to give special weight to export-related benefits when considering applications for loans and guarantees by export trading companies. Directs the Export-Import Bank of the United States to provide loan guarantees to export trading companies or exporters to be secured by accounts receivable or inventories when adequate financing is not otherwise available and such guarantees will facilitate expansion of exports. Small Business Export Expansion Act of 1980 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to permit participating lending institutions to take actions on behalf of the Administrator with respect to deferred participation loans. Empowers the SBA either directly or in cooperation with lending institutions, to extend credit for export purposes to enable small business concerns to develop foreign markets. Limits the extension of such credit to periods of 18 months or less. Sets a maximum of $750,000 which may be committed to any borrower from the business loan and investment revolving fund. Establishes within the Administration an Office of International Trade to promote sales opportunities for small business goods and services abroad. Requires such Office to: (1) provide small businesses with access to current and complete export information; (2) encourage greater small business participation in trade fairs, shows, missions, and other domestic and overseas export development activities of the Department of Commerce; and (3) assign full-time export development specialists to each Administration regional office. Directs the Administrator, after consultation with specified agencies, to establish an export promotion center in each of two regional offices of the Administration where field offices of the Department of Commerce and the Internal Revenue Service exist. Requires each such center to serve as a one- stop information center on Federal Government export assistance, financing programs available to small business, and other provisions of law governing exporting for small business. Requires: (1) a progress report on the implementation of such centers to the appropriate Congressional committees within six months of enactment of this Act; and (2) an evaluation, within two years after enactment, of the effectiveness of such centers in developing and expanding small business exports. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to qualified applicants to encourage the development and implementation of small business international marketing programs. Sets forth eligibility requirements for applicants. Prohibits the use of any Federal funds to directly underwrite any small business participation in foreign trade missions abroad. Requires each small business international marketing program to: (1) have a full-time staff director to manage program activities; (2) have access to export specialists to counsel and assist small business clients; and (3) establish an advisory board. Directs the Secretary to require, as a condition to any grant, that an additional amount equal to twice the amount of such grant be provided from sources other than the Federal Government. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan to evaluate such programs to: (1) determine the impact of such programs on the small businesses assisted; (2) determine the amount of export sales generated by such businesses; and (3) make recommendations concerning continuation and/or expansion of the program. Requires the establishment of at least one small business international program within each region of the Department of Commerce. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the International Trade Administration, to maintain a central clearinghouse for the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information between such programs. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with industrial corporations to develop foreign markets for their products. Requires the Secretary to direct specific market research for the products involved in foreign markets upon entering such agreements. Permits interested industrial corporations to submit a proposal incorporating specific marketing actions to the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a marketing agreement after approving any such proposal. Requires repayment of the Federal share of the costs by the entity entering into such an agreement. International Education Programs Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education to pay the Federal share of the cost of programs designed to promote linkages between such institutions and the American business community engaged in international economic activities. Requires higher education institutions to apply for such grants and contracts. Limits the amount of Federal assistance. Provides for an advisory board to consider the grants made, or contracts entered into, and to review programs established under this section. Directs each Federal agency and U.S. representative to any international organization to: (1) identify programs affecting the export of U.S. firms' services; (2) make available information concerning such programs; (3) establish programs to publicize export-related programs for services; and (4) modify those programs with an adverse effect on the export of services. Makes the Secretary of Commerce responsible for coordinating such programs. Directs the Department of Treasury to report to Congress concerning the feasibility of extending DISC treatment to the export of services. Title VII: Agricultural Exports - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to establish the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund to be available for: (1) the export of, or aid in the development of foreign markets for, agricultural commodities; and (2) loans for the acquisition of facilities in foreign countries to improve the countries' capacities to handle agri-commodities exported from the United States. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to report to Congress annually concerning the export credit sales program. Abolishes such fund effective October 1, 1983. Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to require the ratio of credit extended by the Export-Import Bank for agricultural exports in comparison with the total amount extended be at least equivalent to the value of agricultural exports in comparison with total value of exports. Specifies exceptions to this requirement. Requests the President to take action to establish an International Wheat Exporting Commission which would establish an annual minimum world market price for wheat and prescribe export quotas. Requires the President to keep Congress informed about the establishment of such Commission and to report annually once such Commission is established. Title VIII: International Agreements - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the multilateral trade agreement be strongly implemented; and (2) the efforts must continue to secure a freer world trading environment. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to implement a special export subsidy program for agricultural commodities to neutralize the effects of foreign export subsidy programs. Specifies the circumstances required before such program may be implemented. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should enter negotiations for international codes of: (1) official export financing; (2) business conduct; (3) reciprocity of antitrust enforcement; and (4) fair trade in services. Requires the President to report to Congress concerning the progress of such negotiations. Title IX: Government Support of Export Goals - Overseas Private Investment Corporation Act of 1980 - Establishes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) as an independent agency. Sets forth the duties of OPIC. Provides for the capital of OPIC to be paid in through the appropriation process and through transfer from OPIC's earned income. Sets forth the structure of OPIC with a Board of Directors, a President of the Corporation, an Executive Vice President of the Corporation, other officers and staff, and consultants. Authorizes OPIC to issue insurance to eligible investors covering new or existing investments protecting against specified risks. Authorizes OPIC to make arrangements with foreign governments or multilateral organizations for sharing liabilities. Limits the insurance that may be issued to a single investor. Authorizes OPIC to issue guarantees of loans and other investments. Sets forth limitations on such guarantees. Authorizes OPIC to make direct loans to privately owned or mixed publicly and privately owned firms for projects sponsored by or significantly involving United States small businesses or cooperatives. Limits the circumstances under which OPIC may acquire stock in any other corporation. Authorizes OPIC to initiate and support the identification, assessment, and promotion of private investment opportunities, with specified exceptions. Authorizes OPIC to administer special projects to provide private technical, professional, or managerial assistance in the development of human resources, skills, technology, capital savings, and intermediate financial institutions and cooperatives. Authorizes OPIC to engage in other insurance, reinsurance, and risk sharing activities with other insurance companies, financial institutions, persons, or groups. Limits the amount of reinsurance of liabilities which OPIC may issue. Limits the amount of maximum contingent liability pursuant to insurance or guarantees issued under this Act which may be outstanding at any one time. Establishes the: (1) Direct Investment Fund as a revolving fund to be available for direct investments; and (2) Insurance Reserve and Guaranty Reserve to be available for discharging liabilities. Authorizes appropriations to the investment and guaranty fund in specified circumstances. Authorizes OPIC to issue obligations in specified circumstances in order to discharge liabilities. Requires that all revenues and income transferred to or earned by OPIC be available to carry out OPIC's purposes. Directs OPIC to determine that suitable arrangements exist for protecting OPIC's interests in connection with any insurance, guaranty, or reinsurance issued under this Act. Pledges the full faith and credit of the United States for the full payment and performance of previous obligations. Sets forth conditions with respect to insurance, guaranty, and reinsurance coverage under this Act concerning fees, time limits, fraud, and settlement of disputes. Sets forth administrative provisions and duties applicable to OPIC. Requires OPIC to undertake to broaden the participation of United States small business, cooperatives, and other small investors in the development of small private enterprise in less developed friendly countries or areas. Directs OPIC to report annually to Congress concerning its operations. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to define "eligible investor" in terms of this Act with respect to housing guarantees. Repeals provisions: (1) prohibiting the transfer of OPIC funds between accounts; (2) authorizing the President to deny assistance to any less developed country which fails to enter into an agreement to institute the investment guaranty program; and (3) establishing OPIC. Stipulates that nothing in this part shall be construed as terminating any of OPIC's statutory authority. Requires the President to submit to the appropriate congressional committees any necessary technical or conforming amendments. Declares that the potential for U.S. exports shall be a primary decisionmaking factor in considering which projects to include in U.S. foreign aid programs. Requires the Director of the International Development Cooperation Agency (IDCA) to transfer the functions of the Office of Reimbursable Development from the Agency for International Development to an independent functional status within the IDCA. Declares that the Office of Management and Budget should assure that adequate budget allocations are made available to carry out the programs prescribed in this Act. Declares that the Department of Justice should do what it can to facilitate procedures for exporters. Declares that the Small Business Administration should: (1) be aware of the benefits of export to small business development; and (2) use every opportunity to provide information and assistance to potential exporters. Declares that the U.S. ability to export coal, nuclear power fuels, and other energy materials in a reliable manner should be a key consideration. Directs congressional committees to include in their reports the effect of the bill or resolution on the international competitiveness of the United States. Creates a National Export Council to: (1) serve as a national advisory body on matters relating to United States export trade; (2) act as a liaison among the communities represented by its membership; and (3) provide advice on Federal plans and actions that affect export promotion and development policies which have an impact on those communities represented by its membership. Requires the Council to make an annual report to the President and the Congress on its activities. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to appoint commercial ministers, counselors, and attaches with the rank and privileges of other ministers, counselors, and attaches in U.S. embassies and consulates, to: (1) provide trade and commercial services; (2) engage in the promotion of U.S. exports; (3) file semiannual reports to the Secretary on market, industrial, and commodity conditions in their districts and on the implementation of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements; and (4) maintain current data on the commercial standing and capacity of foreign firms within their districts. Provides for domestic assignment, office logistics, allowances and benefits of such ministers, counselors, and attaches. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress with any recommendations concerning: (1) the organization of international trading and financing programs in the United States; (2) the effectiveness of foreign export promotion programs; and (3) the trade activities of specified Federal agencies. Expresses the sense of Congress that the appropriate congressional committees should review periodically the trade organization of the U.S. Government.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a savings account created or organized exclusively for the purpose of paying the educational expenses of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's child. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,000 per year, adjusted for inflation. Limits the duration of eligibility for such deduction to calendar years prior to the account beneficiary's 21st birthday, or prior to the beneficiary's enrollment as a full-time student at an eligible educational institution of higher learning, whichever occurs earlier. Excludes distributions from such an account from the gross income of the payee so long as such distributions are used to defray the beneficiary's tuition, fees, books and supplies, and reasonable living expenses. Specifies sanctions for the use of account funds for other than such educational purposes. Treats qualified distributions as income to the beneficiary for the taxable year in which the beneficiary attains age 25, and for each of the following nine years, in successive apportionments equal to ten percent of the total amount of such distributions. Allows a deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a savings account created or organized for the benefit of the taxpayer (or the taxpayer and spouse if married) for the exclusive purpose of purchasing the first dwelling purchased by such individual as a principal residence. Limits the maximum annual deduction to $1,500 ($3,000 in the case of married individuals filing jointly), with a maximum lifetime deduction of $15,000 ($30,000 in the case of married individuals filing jointly). Provides for annual inflation adjustment of such amounts. Excludes distributions from such account from gross income so long as they are used exclusively for the purchase of a first principal dwelling. Provides for recapture of such distribution upon a subsequent sale of such first dwelling if another house is not purchased with the proceeds. Requires reduction of the $100,000 exclusion from gross income of proceeds from the sale of a principal residence by a taxpayer 55 years of age or older if such residence had been purchased with distributions from a tax-exempt housing savings account. Limits the amount of such reduction to the amount of any such distribution excluded from gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1980
Title I: Export Trading Companies - Export Trading Company Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to promote export trading companies and facilitate contacts between producers of exportable goods and export trading companies. Authorizes any banking organization to invest up to specified amounts in export trading companies upon notifying, but without obtaining the prior approval of, the appropriate Federal banking agency, if such investment does not cause an export trading company to become a subsidiary of such organization. Allows greater investment by Edge Act Corporations not engaged in banking. Permits any banking organization to invest beyond such limitations with the prior approval of the appropriate Federal banking agency. Requires prior notification of such agencies in specified circumstances. Sets forth further limitations on export trading companies and investments by banking organizations. Specifies factors to be taken into consideration by the banking agencies. Permits such agencies to impose conditions in approving applications to invest in export trading companies. Requires such agencies to report to the appropriate congressional committees concerning implementation of this Act and any recommendations. Provides for judicial review of denial orders in the appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals. Sets forth the grounds for disapproval. Provides for remand for further consideration by the banking agency. Directs the Economic Development Administration and the Small Business Administration to give special weight to export-related benefits when considering applications for loans and guarantees by export trading companies. Directs the Export-Import Bank of the United States to provide loan guarantees to export trading companies or exporters to be secured by accounts receivable or inventories when adequate financing is not otherwise available and such guarantees will facilitate expansion of exports. Title II: Export Trade Associations - Export Trade Association Act of 1980 - Amends the Webb-Pomerene Act to exempt the export trade, export trade activities, and methods of operation of certified export trade associations and export trading companies from the antitrust laws. Delays the effectiveness of any certificate upon the notification of the Secretary of Commerce by the Attorney General or the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of disagreement with the decision to issue a certificate. Sets forth the procedure to be followed by any association, company, or export trading company seeking certification under this Act and by the Secretary in issuing such certificates. Provides for appeal of the Secretary's denial of certification. Authorizes the Attorney General or the FTC to bring an action to invalidate a certification. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General and the FTC, to publish guidelines for determining whether an association or export trading company will meet the certification requirements. Requires certified associations and export trading companies to submit annual reports to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Commerce an office to promote export trade associations and trading companies. Provides for automatic certification of existing associations. Requires that all applications for certification be kept confidential with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary to require an association or trading company to modify its operation to be consistent with international obligations of the United States. Directs the President to appoint, with the Senate's advice and consent, a task force seven years after enactment to examine the effect of this Act and to make recommendations. Title III: Taxation of Export Trading Companies - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make banking organizations which have invested in an export trading company eligible for treatment as domestic international sales corporations (DISC). Includes the gross receipts from the export of services produced in the United States and from export trade services as qualified export receipts, in the case of a DISC which is an export trading company. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, with the Secretary of the Treasury, to develop and distribute information concerning the utilization of the DISC provisions. Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make export trading companies eligible for Subchapter S treatment if the shareholders of such companies are otherwise small business corporations. Exempts such companies from restrictions on the amount of foreign income they can receive and still be eligible for Subchapter S tax treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1980
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the enactment of a withholding tax on interest and dividend payments would be detrimental to the economic well-being of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to redefine the term mobile home to mean a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is more than eight body feet in width, is more than 40 body feet in length in the traveling mode, or contains 400 or more square feet in interior space when erected on site. Amends the National Housing Act, the United States Housing Act of 1937, and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to change the classification of mobile home to manufactured housing.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1980
Grants a Federal charter to the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. Declares that the purpose of such corporation is to establish memorials to those who served aboard United States submarines and gave their lives during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1980
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that no Federal withholding tax be imposed on dividends and interest received by any citizen or resident of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1980
Veterans' Education Assistance Act of 1980 - Establishes a Peacetime Veterans' Educational Assistance Program for persons who enter military service after September 30, 1980, and serve on active duty for a period of two years or more, or are discharged or released from such duty for a service-connected disability. Entitles eligible veterans to 36 months of educational assistance under such program. Makes such veterans eligible to participate in the Predischarge Education Program and eligible for education loans. Provides that such veterans are eligible for educational assistance for the ten-year period following their discharge or release date. Sets forth procedures extending any applicable time period for such veterans who are prevented from initiating or completing a program of education under certain circumstances. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay tuition costs and a subsistence allowance to eligible veterans in the program. Makes technical and conforming amendments to existing laws relating to veterans educational assistance. Terminates the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance program after September 30, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) request the Soviet Union to exchange scientific data regarding the outbreak of pulmonary anthrax near Sverdlovsk as provided for by the convention prohibiting bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons; or (2) take appropriate international procedures or lodge a complaint with the United Nations Security Council, if the Soviet Union fails to make available such data.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1980
Amends the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to authorize the construction of measures to mitigate fish and wildlife habitat losses as part of the salinity control program established under such Act. Specifies that the technical assistance provided to water users on means and measures for limiting excess water applications to irrigated lands, as an element of the Grand Valley salinity control unit, shall be available, after December 31, 1989, only to those lands that participate in the Department of Agriculture programs to improve onfarm water management. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, from time to time, to review the plans for implementation of the units authorized by such Act, and, based upon his findings, make recommendations to the appropriate Congressional committees regarding the desirability of continuing to implement such units or portions thereof. Requires the Secretary to notify the Governors of the Colorado River Basin States of such recommendations. Authorizes appropriations for the construction of works necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act. Specifies the portion of such funds that are to be used for mitigation of fish and wildlife habitat losses.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a certain portion of royalty owner oil production from the windfall profit tax. Limits the amount so exempted per quarter to ten barrels per day. Requires proportionate allocation of any production in excess of ten barrels per day between tier 1 oil and tier 2 oil, and within any tier on the basis of removal prices. Requires allocation of the ten barrel amount among royalty owners who are members of the same related group.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the crude oil windfall profit tax: (1) an independent oil producer's entire production of oil; and (2) a proportionate interest in an independent producer's production held by a royalty owner. Excludes from such exemption any independent producer's interest in production from a property to the extent that such interest was held by an integrated oil company on October 24, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1980
Amends the military retiree Survivor Benefit Plan to permit an individual suffering from a service-connected disability rated by the Veterans' Administration (VA) as totally disabling for a specified period of time, to suspend election in such Plan by submitting written notice to the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes the Secretary, upon receipt of a request for such a suspension, to discontinue the reduction being made in such person's retired or retainer pay on account of participation in the Plan. Requires the individual electing to suspend participation in the Plan to obtain the written consent of the beneficiary or beneficiaries involved. Authorizes the Secretary to furnish to each person who requests suspension of participation in the Plan a written statement of the advantages of participating in the Plan and the disadvantages of suspending participation. Allows a specified time for withdrawal of the suspension request. Permits reenrollment in the Plan if at any time subsequent to such suspension the VA reduces such person's service-connected disability rating to less than total and the individual makes application to the Secretary within the prescribed period. Authorizes the Secretary to resume reductions in such person's retired or retainer pay upon receipt of such application.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income of an individual any benefits paid under title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1980
Makes it the continuing duty of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compile and publish the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Requires that no changes be made in the factors used in the formation of the CPI or any similar index, except as authorized by law, if such changes would reduce the amount of the cost-of-living increases as compared to the increases which would have been provided without such changes, provided by the following programs: (1) the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits program and the supplemental security income program under the Social Security Act; (2) the civil service retirement program; (3) the military retired pay program; (4) the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974; or (5) any other Federal program providing retirement or similar payments on account of past performance of personal services.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the first concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1981 reported by the Committee on the Budget shall limit budget outlays to 21 per cent of the gross national product.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation extending best wishes and expressing appreciation to Carl Vinson for his devotion to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Congratulates the members of the 1980 U.S. Winter Olympic team, its coaches and officials for a job well done. Recognizes the International Olympic Committee, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee and the people of the Lake Placid area for their successful efforts in organizing and producing the XIII Winter Olympic Games.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that a total embargo on U.S. exports to the Soviet Union should be imposed whenever any embargo on U.S. grain exports to the Soviet Union is in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1980
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act to include any loan, payment, or gift made for the purpose of participating or intervening in a political campaign for certain offices within the definition of a "contribution or expenditure" by a national bank, a corporation, or a labor organization for purposes of such Act and the Public Utility Holding Company Act. Allows a corporation or labor organization to establish and administer a separate contributory fund for political purposes provided that all contributions for or to the fund are made voluntarily and are unrelated to any fees required for membership or employment in such organization or corporation. Prohibits the payment of any costs of establishing or administering the fund from moneys obtained in any commercial transaction.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1980
Restores specified lands in Arizona to the Colorado River Indian Reservation to be held in trust by the United States on behalf of the Colorado River Indian Tribes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1980
National Intelligence Act of 1980 - Title I: Authorization for Intelligence Activities - Defines, for purposes of this Act, the terms: (1) "intelligence" as any information relating to or resulting from any foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, counterterrorism intelligence, or special activity; (2) "intelligence community" to include the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), specified offices of the Department of Defense, the intelligence components of the military services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State, the foreign intelligence components of the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Energy, and any successor to any such entity; (3) "national intelligence" as foreign intelligence which is used in the formulation of national policy; (4) "special activity" as an activity conducted abroad which is designed to further U.S. programs and executed so that the role of the U.S. is not acknowledged publicly; (5) "United States person" to include any association organized in the United States or any unincorporated association the members of which are U.S. citizens or resident aliens, which is not openly acknowledged to be controlled by a foreign government. Authorizes the entities of the intelligence community to conduct intelligence activities, under the direction and review of the National Security Council, in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Directs the National Security Council (NSC) to provide the highest level review of, and direction to, the conduct of intelligence activities. Lists the responsibilities of NSC which include assisting the President in developing communications security policies. Authorizes the President to establish committees of NSC as may be necessary to carry out its responsibilities. Permits special activities to be conducted by: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency; (2) the Department of Defense in a period of war or to the extent necessary for hostilities under the War Powers Resolution; or (3) by another agency as determined by the President. Allows the President and the NSC to designate other agencies to provide support for any special activity. Requires any special activity to be authorized by the President only after: (1) the President finds that (a) such activity is important to the national security, (b) overt or less sensitive alternatives would not achieve the intended objective, and (c) the anticipated benefits of such activity justify its risks and consequences; and (2) the NSC or an NSC committee conducts a review and recommends a decision concerning such activity to the President. Directs the NSC to supervise special activities. Requires the President to establish procedures for approving other sensitive intelligence activities. Prohibits any person acting on behalf of the U.S. to engage or conspire to engage in assassination. Directs the President to establish guidelines for intelligence activities which protect the integrity and independence of private U.S. institutions. Prohibits any intelligence community entity from establishing as a cover for any of its agents, an affiliation with a U.S. religious, media, or educational institution, the Peace Corps, or any Government program designed to promote education, the arts, humanities, or cultural affairs through international exchanges. Prohibits any intelligence community entity from supporting any communication for the purpose of influencing public opinion within the United States unless Government involvement is acknowledged. Permits an entity to conceal its sponsorship of a contract for the provision of goods or services for an organization under specified circumstances. Prohibits an intelligence entity from encouraging any person to commit an act which the entity is prohibited from committing. Directs the President to appoint an Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) (previously established pursuant to Executive Order 11905) which shall function to provide the President independent oversight of the intelligence community. Requires each intelligence entity to designate: (1) a general counsel who shall review entity activities and rules to ensure compliance with Federal laws and Presidential and entity directives; and (2) an inspector general who shall determine how entity functions may be performed more effectively, and advise the entity head respecting matters of legality. Directs the Attorney General: (1) to report to the IOB and the President any intelligence activities involving serious questions of law; and (2) to keep the IOB and entity general counsels informed of Department of Justice opinions affecting the intelligence community. Requires the head of each intelligence entity to report to the Attorney General any evidence of possible violations of Federal criminal laws by an entity employee or any other person. Empowers each entity head to take disciplinary action against any employee who violates a provision of this Act or a regulation established pursuant to this Act. Directs each entity head: (1) to keep the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (Committees) fully informed of all intelligence activities, including anticipated special activities, of such entity; and (2) to furnish the Committees information concerning such activities and copies of all record schedules submitted to the Archivist of the United States. Requires each Committee to report, at least annually, to its respective House on U.S. intelligence activities. Sets forth House and Senate rules governing the disclosure to the public and to Members and employees of Congress of any classified intelligence information. Requires a previous authorization before funds may be appropriated for national intelligence, counterintelligence or counterterrorism intelligence activities. Declares that all intelligence activities shall be subject to audit and review by the Comptroller General at the request of either Committee. Permits the Director of National Intelligence to exempt certain activities from audit or review. Title II: Standards for Intelligence Activities - Defines the term: (1) "covert technique" as a collection activity that is designated by the President for the purpose of protecting privacy and constitutional rights from significant intrusion; and (2) "extraordinary technique" as any technique, including electronic surveillance or a physical search, directed at a U.S. person outside the United States for which a warrant would be required if undertaken in the United States. Sets forth guidelines and restrictions with regard to the collection, retention, and dissemination of intelligence concerning U.S. persons by an intelligence entity. Permits an entity: (1) to utilize any technique of conducting an intelligence activity against any person with that person's consent; (2) to collect publicly available information; and (3) to retain and disseminate any information about a person which does not identify that person. Permits an intelligence entity to conduct intelligence activities directed against U.S. persons only in accordance with procedures established by the entity head and approved by the Attorney General. Requires that such procedures: (1) protect constitutional rights and privacy; (2) designate officials to initiate, approve, review, and make records of such activities; (3) include minimization procedures; and (4) define the scope, intensity, and duration of the different types of activities. Directs the entity head to submit the procedures to the Committees before their effective date. Prohibits the collection of foreign intelligence by covert techniques directed against U.S. persons except: (1) in the course of collecting connterintelligence or counterterrorism intelligence; or (2) when the President finds, after a review and recommendation by the NSC, that because of extraordinary circumstances, the information is essential to national security and cannot be acquired by any other means. Requires that the Attorney General be advised concerning any such collection. Authorizes such collections only by: (1) the FBI; (2) the National Security Agency when directed at foreign electromagnetic communications; and (3) the CIA, with the approval of the Attorney General, when the target is a senior foreign official or an entity controlled by a foreign power. Allows counterintelligence or counterterrorism intelligence activities to be directed against a U.S. person without the person's consent only if there is reasonable evidence that the person is engaged in clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power or terrorist activity. Specifies the means by which such intelligence may be collected, under certain conditions, including the use of mail covers, physical surveillance, and directed collection. Prohibits the use of covert techniques or mail covers in the collection of information about a U.S. person: (1) whom a designated official finds is the target of foreign intelligence activity; (2) who is being considered as a potential source of intelligence or operational assistance; and (3) in regard to providing personnel, document, communication, or physical security for intelligence activities. Sets forth conditions for collecting such information. Requires the head of each intelligence entity to review, annually, any intelligence activity directed against a U.S. person which lasts over one year and to report on such review to the Attorney General. Prohibits the use of extraordinary techniques to collect information concerning a U.S. person outside the United States except pursuant to a court order. Specifies the requirements which must be satisfied before a court may issue an order to use such techniques to collect foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, or counterterrorism intelligence. Precludes an order from authorizing the use of an extraordinary technique for a period exceeding 90 days. Directs the court established pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Search and Surveillance Act to observe the procedural and administrative provisions of such Act when reviewing applications for court orders under this Title. Permits military judges appointed by the Secretary of Defense to issue orders for extraordinary techniques directed against military personnel abroad in accordance with provisions of this title. Prohibits a court, when determining whether to issue a court order, from requiring the disclosure of any cooperative or liaison relationship between a Government agency and a foreign government, if the Director of National Intelligence determines such disclosure would jeopardize that relationship. Permits an intelligence entity to conduct covert or extraordinary techniques without approval or a court order for 72 hours if the entity head determines that an emergency situation exists and that the factual basis for approval or a court order exists. Specifies the criminal penalties and civil liability to be applied to any Government employee who intentionally engages in foreign electronic surveillance or foreign physical search or discloses information obtained by such methods except as authorized by statute. Title III: The Intelligence Community - Creates the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as an independent executive establishment. Declares that the Director and Deputy Director of National Intelligence shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve at the pleasure of the President for not more than ten years. Sets forth the duties and authorities of the Director who shall serve as the principal foreign intelligence officer of the United States. Requires the Director: (1) to be responsible for coordinating all national intelligence, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism intelligence activities; (2) to evaluate the quality of national intelligence and the management of intelligence activities; (3) to direct national intelligence collection; (4) to be responsible for the production and dissemination of national intelligence; (5) to ensure the appropriate implementation of special activities and sensitive foreign intelligence, counter intelligence, and counterterrorism activities; (6) to develop policies with respect to intelligence arrangements with foreign governments; and (7) to be responsible for the management of information relating to intelligence sources and methods. Authorizes the Director to conduct program and performance audits of national intelligence activities, and to review all Government intelligence activities and supporting research and development activities. Authorizes the President to appoint: (1) five Assistant Directors of National Intelligence, no more than two of whom may be military officers; and (2) a General Counsel to discharge the responsibilities of the general counsel of the ODNI and the CIA under this Act. Authorizes the Director, the Attorney General, and the head of each intelligence entity to establish such committees and boards as may be necessary to carry out provisions of this Act and to waive the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Requires the Director to make available to the public an annual, unclassified report on the national intelligence, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism intelligence activities conducted by intelligence entities. Grants the Director exclusive authority for approval of the national intelligence budget submitted to the President. Authorizes the expenditure of ODNI funds to be accounted for solely on the certificate of the Director. Title IV: Central Intelligence Agency - Reestablishes the CIA as an independent establishment in the executive branch. Declares that the Director of National Intelligence shall serve as Director of the CIA (Agency Director). Authorizes the President to appoint the Deputy Director of National Intelligence or an Assistant Director of National Intelligence as the Agency Director or to transfer any of the duties of the Agency Director to the Deputy or Assistant Director with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires the Agency Director to appoint an Inspector General to carry out the duties of inspector general under this Act for the ODNI and the CIA. Sets forth the functions of the Agency which include: (1) conducting foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism intelligence by clandestine means; (2) conducting special activities; (3)producing intelligence to meet the needs of the President, the NSC, and the ODNI; (4) acting as the agent of the Director of National Intelligence in coordinating intelligence activities abroad; (5) acting as a liaison with foreign government agencies; and (6) performing administrative functions for the ODNI. Permits the Agency: (1) to collect foreign intelligence by clandestine means in the United States in coordination with the FBI; and (2) to conduct counterintelligence or counterterrorism intelligence activities by clandestine means in the United States only with the approval of the Director of the FBI. Specifies security, personnel, and ancillary functions of the Agency to procure property and services, enter into contracts, and dispose of property when necessary to perform its authorized functions, without regard to the provisions of other laws. Permits the Agency to establish and operate proprietaries in support of its functions. Requires the Agency to deposit excess funds generated by the proprietary into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. Establishes the Contingency Reserve Fund for the payment of any expenses of an authorized intelligence activity which were not anticipated at the time the Agency's budget was submitted. Permits the Agency Director to withdraw money from the Fund if: (1) the Officer of Management and Budget approves the withdrawal; and (2) the Director notifies specified congressional committees of the withdrawal within a specified period. Authorizes the Agency Director to pay employees the same benefits, travel allowances, and death gratuities as Foreign Service officers receive under current statutes. Establishes a criminal penalty to be assessed against any person who uses the name, initials, or seal of the CIA without authorization to convey the impression that a publication or production is endorsed or authorized by the Agency. Title V: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Declares that all intelligence functions of the FBI shall be performed under the supervision of the Attorney General. Requires the Attorney General to be guided by NSC policies and responsive to foreign intelligence collection requirements promulgated by the Director of National Intelligence. Directs the Attorney General and the FBI Director to review FBI intelligence activities annually and to designate officials to act as a general counsel and an inspector general for the FBI. Specifies the duties of the FBI Director which include: (1) serving as the principal Government officer for conducting counterintelligence and counterterrorism intelligence activities within the U.S.; (2) ensuring that FBI intelligence activities are in accordance with this Act, Federal laws, and the Constitution; and (3) advising and assisting the Attorney General and the NSC on counterintelligence and counterterrorism intelligence matters. Directs the FBI to: (1) collect and disseminate counterintelligence and counterterrorism intelligence; (2) conduct other intelligence activities as are necessary for lawful purposes; and (3) conduct liaison for counterintelligence or counterterrorism intelligence purposes with foreign governments. Requires any FBI intelligence activities outside the United States to be coordinated with and approved by the CIA. Requires the approval of the Attorney General with respect to such activities which are not directly related to the FBI's domestic activities. Permits another intelligence entity to conduct clandestine counterintelligence or counterterrorism intelligence activities within the U.S. only with written FBI approval and notice to the Attorney General. Authorizes the FBI: (1) to collect foreign intelligence within the U.S. in the course of authorized collection of counterintelligence and counterterrorism intelligence; (2) to produce foreign intelligence in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence; and (3) to conduct activities in support of foreign intelligence collection programs of another intelligence entity with the FBI Director's approval and notice to the Attorney General. Requires the FBI to coordinate all collection of foreign intelligence by clandestine means within the United States by any intelligence entity. Allows only the FBI to collect foreign information, within the U.S., by clandestine means directed against an unconsenting U.S. person. Specifies conditions under which the FBI may collect counterintelligence or counterterrorism intelligence on the written request of a foreign government. Authorizes the FBI: (1) to establish secure cover for employees and sources; (2) to establish and operate proprietaries; and (3) to procure goods or services in such a manner that the role of the FBI is not publicly acknowledged. Title VI: National Security Agency - Defines the term "United States signals intelligence system" to include the National Security Agency, elements of the military departments and the CIA which perform signals intelligence activities, and other agencies authorized by the NSC to perform such activities. Reestablishes the National Security Agency within the Department of Defense to conduct signals intelligence activities and communications security activities for the United States and to serve as the principal agency of the United States signals intelligence system. Directs the Secretary of Defense, in supervising the Agency, to comply with intelligence policies established by the NSC and with requirements established by the Director of National Intelligence. States that the Director and Deputy Director of the Agency shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve at the pleasure of the President for a period not to exceed 12 years. Specifies the duties of the Director which include: (1) serving as the principal signals intelligence and communications security officer of the Government; (2) consolidating the signals intelligence and communications security functions of the Government; (3) preparing a consolidated United States signals intelligence program and budget and a consolidated Department of Defense communications security program and budget for each fiscal year; (4) conducting liaison on cryptologic matters with foreign governments; (5) instituting sufficient measures to ensure the confidentiality of U.S. communications; and (6) providing signals intelligence support for military operations in accordance with priorities assigned by the Secretary of Defense. Provides for the appointment of a General Counsel and an Inspector General of the Agency. Authorizes the Agency to: (1) rent, lease, construct, or alter buildings to carry out its functions under this title; (2) maintain secure cover for Agency employees and entities; and (3) direct the transfer of cryptologic equipment among intelligence entities and between intelligence entities and other agencies. Permits the Agency to procure goods or services in the name of the Department of Defense and to conceal the participation of the Department when necessary for security. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make funds available to the Agency for confidential or emergency expenses only from funds appropriated for that specific purpose. Allows the Agency, under such regulations as the Agency approves, to provide Agency employees the same allowances, benefits, and death gratuities provided to Foreign Service employees. Authorizes the Director to establish or assist in establishing commissary and mess services at posts outside the United States where such services or facilities are not provided by another agency. Amends civil service retirement provisions to entitle certain Agency employees involved in hazardous duty to a special annuity. Requires the Director to make special provision for the delegation of operational control of signals intelligence activities required to provide support to military commanders and agency heads. Prohibits any organization outside the United States signals intelligence system from performing signals intelligence activities without NSC authorization. Transfers all personnel, obligations, and contracts of the National Security Agency on the day before the enactment of this Title to the Director of the Agency. Title VII: Protection of Identities of Certain Undercover Intelligence Officers, Agents, Informants, and Sources - Sets forth a criminal penalty to be imposed on any person: (1) who has or has had access to classified information which identifies an employee, agent, or information source of the CIA or any intelligence component of the Department of Defense; (2) who knows that the United States is trying to conceal such information; and (3) who intentionally discloses such information to any individual not authorized to receive classified information. States that only the person committing the offense shall be subject to prosecution under this Title. Title VIII: Physical Searches Within the United States - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to extend the procedures for the authorization of electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes to the authorization of a physical search. Defines the term "physical search" as any search of property or opening of mail in the United States for which a warrant would be required for law enforcement purposes. Permits the President, acting through the Attorney General, to authorize a physical search directed solely at property under foreign control provided that no property or mail of a United States person shall be seized. Permits the Attorney General to authorize physical entry of such property for electronic surveillance purposes. Prohibits any court order issued under such Act from authorizing more than one unconsented entry of real property except for electronic surveillance purposes. Requires any court order approving more than one search of property or the opening of more than one item of mail to identify the authorized scope of the searches or opening of mail. Title IX: Miscellaneous Amendments and Effective Date - Makes conforming and technical amendments. Repeals the Hughes-Ryan Amendment which prohibited the CIA from expending funds for certain operations in foreign countries until the President submitted a report on such operations to the appropriate committees of Congress. Specifies the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1980
Appoints Carlisle H. Humelsine, of Virginia, as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the statutory term of six years.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Animal Damage Control Amendments of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to carry out a program for controlling the damage caused by predators of livestock. Requires the Secretary, in conducting such program: (1) to use and permit the use of lethal and nonlethal animal control devices, methods, and chemical toxicants; (2) to undertake research activities concerning chemical toxicants and other nonlethal control techniques; (3) to use preventive control techniques to manage predator populations; and (4) to establish an ad hoc committee to review biannually the Secretary's animal damage control activities. Directs the Secretaries to submit annually a joint report on the development and implementation of such program to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to establish in the Treasury an Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund to finance short-term export credit sales of agricultural commodities produced in the U.S. and to make loans for the construction or acquisition of facilities to improve the capacity of foreign countries to handle, market, process, store, or distribute such agricultural commodities. Requires that all sums received by the Commodity Credit Corporation from the liquidation of loans made to finance short-term export credit sales of such agricultural commodities be added to and become a part of such fund. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 to such fund. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to report annually to Congress on the export credit sales program carried out by the Corporation in the last fiscal year. Abolishes such fund effective October 1, 1983. Requires that all unobligated money in such fund become a part of the miscellaneous receipts account of the Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Native American Culture and Art Development Act - Establishes the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development under the direction and control of a Board of Trustees. Sets forth the composition and terms of membership on such Board. Requires that the first Chairman of such Board be appointed by the President and subsequent Chairmen be elected by the trustees. Directs such Chairman, in consultation with the Board, to appoint a President to carry out the policies and functions of such Institute. Sets forth the powers of such Board. Directs the appropriate Federal department to transfer to the Institute the jurisdiction and control over the real property comprising the Institute of American Indian Arts facility located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Authorizes the Board to establish within the Institute: (1) a Center for Culture and Art Studies to include Departments of Traditional Arts and Sciences, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Language, and Literature; (2) a Center for Native American Scholars to include research and fellowship programs and publications; (3) a center for Cultural Exchange to include an inter-American Indian program, marketing and promotion of Indian crafts, promotion of Indian art, exhibits and shows; (4) a Museum of Indian Arts to include the acquisition of Indian art and the curation and exhibition of Indian art; and (5) other related centers or programs. Transfers to the Institute the functions of the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Makes the laws applicable to such entities applicable to the Institute. Directs the President of the Institute to submit an annual report to the Board concerning the administration of the Institute. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Expresses the Senate's support for efforts to win the freedom of the hostages in Iran. Calls upon all nations to join in cooperative efforts to restrict relations with Iran. Declares that: (1) any trial or public exploitation of the hostages would be viewed as added provocation; and (2) the American people will not be diverted from their determination that the hostages be freed.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for crediting the pro-rata expense obligations of a handler of grapefruit, lemons, and oranges from California and Arizona, pursuant to a marketing order, with all or any portion of such handler's direct expenditures for such marketing promotion.
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